Back Stabbers Chords & Tabs

Back Stabbers Chords

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"Back Stabbers"
(Kenny Gamble - Leon Huff)
Intro:
[2X; strings enter 2nd time]
CmBb6
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Abmaj7Gm7Fm7G+ [2: N.C.]
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
(What they do!)
Chorus:
Cm
(They smile in your face)
Bb6
All the time they want to take your place
Abmaj7Gm7Fm7/BbG+/B
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
[repeat chorus]
Verse 1:
[ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/o/ojays/back_stabbers_crd_ver_2.html ]Cm7F7
All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
Cm7F7
Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah
Ebmaj7Abmaj7
Somebody's out to get your lady
Abadd9/Bb
A few of your buddies they sure look shady
Ebmaj7Abmaj7
Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Fm7
Aimin' straight at your back
G+
And I don't think they'll miss
(What they do!)
[repeat chorus]
Verse 2:
I keep gettin' all these visits from my friends, yeah,
what they doin to me
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah
So are they there to see my woman
I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'
What can I do to get on the right track
I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back
[repeat chorus]
[instrumental break as per intro (1X)]
Low down... dirty...
(What they do!)
[repeat chorus to fade]:
(They smile in your face)
Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies
(Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
I don't need... low down, dirty bastards
(Back stabbers) [fade]
-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers